Barrel-cover-tie holder



No. 625,52 Patented May "5,1899.

0. F. DEAN.

BARREL COVER TIE HOLDER.

(Application filed may 24, 1898.)

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NIT-ED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

COLONEL FREEMONT DEAN, OF CARMEL, NEW YORK.

BARREL-COVER-TIE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 625,152, dated May 16,1899.

Application filed May 24, 1898. $erial No. 681,546. (No model.)

To (I/ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, COLONEL FREEMONT DEAN, of Carmel, in the county ofPutnam and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedBarrel-Cover-Tie Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for securing the endsof a cord employed for holding a textile cover on a barrel; and theobject is to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive deviceadapted to be permanently attached to a barrel and by the use of whichthe trouble and inconvenience of tying or knotting the cord will beavoided.

I will describe a ba1'rel-cover-tie holder embodying my invention andthen point out the novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts.

The figure of the drawing is a perspective View of a tie-holderembodying my invention.

The tie-holder consists of a single length of Wire turned in the form oftwo concentric rings 5 6,with the ends of the wire wound around therings at the top and bottom and then turned outward at right angles tothe rings to form prongs 7 and 8 to be driven into a barrel just belowthe'upper hoops. At the sides of the prongs 7 and 8 the rings are spreadapart, so that-a cord may be inserted between them, as indicated indotted lines, and there fore the rings provide clamping-jaws laterallyof the prongs.

The device is to be permanently attached to a barrel; and it is obviousthat it may be used a great number of times for shipment and reshipment.

In use after placing the cover of textile ma terial over the barrel sothat a portion will ex tend down over the upper hoops the cord is to becarried around this downwardly-turned length of wire bent to form twoconcentric rings and having the ends turned around said rings at top andbottom and then turned outward to form prongs to be driven into a barrelor the like, substantially as specified.

COLONEL FREEMONT DEAN.

Witnesses:

CLAYTON RYDER, CALVERT J. H-AZEN.

